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Heart Muscle Enzyme Test

Vermont rates for HCPCS 82553

This blood test measures a specific fraction of an enzyme that is released into the blood when heart muscle is damaged. It is used to help detect and monitor heart muscle injury, such as during a suspected heart attack.

Rates data updated July 2026.

How much does Heart Muscle Enzyme Test cost?

$11.48

Typical negotiated rate. In Vermont, July 2026.

Insurers have agreed to pay about $11.48 for this service. The price depends on where it is billed: about $11.48 from a physician practice, and about $67.61 from a hospital or other facility. The two figures are alternatives, not parts of one bill.

These are rates insurers have negotiated with providers, not the amount a patient is billed. What you owe depends on your plan's deductible and coinsurance. Based on rates published by 5 insurance carriers under federal price transparency rules.

Where it's billed changes the price

Billed byTypicalRange
Physician practiceA doctor's office, clinic or independent provider$11.48$11.48 to $13.49
FacilityA hospital or hospital-owned outpatient department$67.61$19.50 to $87.10

How much rates vary

Facilitymedian $68 · 10th to 90th $11 to $138Professionalmedian $11 · 10th to 90th $11 to $15
$5$10$20$50$100facility $68professional $11

Distribution of negotiated rates across all payers (price axis is log-scale). Each curve is scaled to its own total: facility and professional rates are different services, shown together to compare where they cluster. Small sample; interpret with caution. Need provider-level prices or 24+ months of history? Contact us.

Rates by insurance carrier

Insurance Carrier
Aetna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$11.48
Typical High
$13.49
BCBS
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$60.26
Median
$87.10
Typical High
$162.18
BCBS
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$12.88
Median
$12.88
Typical High
$12.88
Cigna
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$19.50
Median
$77.62
Typical High
$77.62
Cigna
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$8.32
Median
$16.60
Typical High
$19.95
MVP Health Care
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$11.48
Median
$11.48
Typical High
$11.48
MVP Health Care
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$9.33
Median
$9.33
Typical High
$9.33
United
Setting
Facility
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$4.07
Median
$4.07
Typical High
$4.07
United
Setting
Professional
Modifier
Global
Typical Low
$5.25
Median
$14.45
Typical High
$31.62

Where Vermont sits

The same service costs 3.5 times more in Nebraska than in Washington, DC. Every bar is a state, most expensive first. Touch or drag across it to read any state, then open that state for its carriers and full range.

Vermont· 37th of 51

$11.48

NE $30.20DC $8.71

Median negotiated rate in each state, from every insurer that publishes one. States where no insurer publishes a rate for this service are not shown.